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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

As promised, today's parade of cakey canines features the icing-drowned cupcake pups, which in my opinion ride dangerously close to the whole cupcake-cake-concept, and are therefore worthy of all the condemnation we can heap on them. But, I digress.

First up, a creation that looks more like a doggy end-product than a dog:

That's the side view. If you're thinking it will be more recognizable from the front...

Think again. Oh, and don't you love all the effort put into decorating the cake board? Somebody'sshootin' for the stars.

This one's not bad, other than the fact that it's neon pink, worried-looking, and apparently vomiting sprinkles. Huh. Come to think of it, that last bit might explain the first two issues (although then neon green would be more appropriate).

Here's my favorite: the pooch's face has slid completely off his head and onto the board! I'm guessing the decorator added those paw prints after a few customers asked why the store was selling misshapen icing ploops on a board. (Yes, "ploops". I find it to be an apt description.)

Now there's a face only a mother could love. (And only a decorator could recognize, for that matter. Seriously, would you know this thing was supposed to be a dog?)

Not the thing I should be looking at this early in the a.m., ha! At first I thought the decorator did a mighty fine job of smoothing out the icing on the cake, until I realized what I thought was the cake was actually just a plain cake board (those scallops will fool me into thinking it is a cupcake cake every time).

Were these ordered, or were they created on spec, and on the bakery shelf waiting for someone to adopt them?

See, this is what people get for obsessing over those overly precious miniature breeds. If you can actually see the legs on your dog, maybe you'd be less inclined to try to make a cake out of it. And would thereby avoid the risk of trying to reproduce long fur in edible form.

Cracks me up!!! I particularly like the vomitting sprinkles part....lol

So walmart sells these little cakes and I did purchase one for my mother in law, she is a dog lover all the way to the extreme... however ours was so cute we could not eat it, she just showed it off and then let it sit until it was petrified.

Hilarious! I personnally hate the dog cakes because they have taken over the spot where the single slice of cake were. Confessions of a sneaky eater...I would get a single slice when I had a craving They were great because all evidence would be gone by the time I got home! I am the only one who likes white cake, everyone else is a chocolate fan, so I'd have to sneak cake to get the kind I wanted.

The hot pink dog reminded me... my neice and nephew are twins... they turned 2 on Sept. 19th. Their party was "Clifford" themed... they got them each a RED dog, 2 cupcake cake, to "eat"... as cute as it is to see them eat it and have icing from head to toe... RED wasn't the best choice... it dyes your skin... and your blonde hair... LOL

That last yellow one looks like some kind of girl/boy Star Wars charachter taking a sunbath nekkid! What are these people thinking??? And yes I think when the first one was ordered the person taking the order only understood Brown Poo and didn't hear the -dle at the end so the people got what they asked for brown poo, not brown poodle. OMG, I need help, I am starting to think like the wreckmeisters.

I believe you when you say these are cupcake cakes ... but it's pretty disturbing that you can't see the cupcakes *at all*. Imagine trying to eat this, and getting all that gross icing all over your hands ... yuck. (I like icing, frosting, whatever you call it, but there are limits.)

ok that is too funny, gross I made my daughter better cupcake dogs cakes for her bday and I am not a baker decorator!! wow the first one looks like diapers I have changed! seriously people paid money for these? i would be so upset if I ordered a cake and they looked like this! I like your blog so much it is funny and your writing is fun!

Poor puppies. I'm a cat-lover, and I still feel for dogs world-wide who have to suffer this kind of representation in the bakery world. I actually saw some at the grocery store this afternoon on my lunch break and considered sending them to you - but someone beat me to it!

It would make sense if these were jellyroll cakes - and that might make them a little cuter, but cupcakes? That's just absurd.

My boyfriend's name is Clifford (Cliff), and I've considered making him a cake shaped like his namesake, but after this, I'll stick with Clifford-the-Dog-shaped cookies painted red with Royal icing!

My problem with the pink dog attempting to be Clifford is that Clifford, big as he was, was a short-haired dog, and this design inherently implies a long-haired (or at least medium-haired) dog. If that really was trying to be Clifford, then somewhere in the world, Emily Elizabeth is crying.

All you frosting haters are on notice. Frosting is the staff of life! Cake is merely a mechanism to get the frosting to ones mouth without plooping frosting all over the place!The doggie cakes are awful as cake "art" but yummy as frosting delivering devices.

I have a question about cupcake cakes. I've never had one and after reading your blog, I never want to! However, I don't understand how these are supposed to be served. Isn't there icing everywhere? How can you tell where to cut into it? And how can you tell today's doggy cakes were ccc? They look like there could be anything under all that frosting! Just asking because I honestly don't know! :)

for some reason that last one made me laugh so hard! for a moment i imagined an alligator in the water with a mop wig for a disguise. i just start laughing if i even think about that picture! thanks for the laughs!

You always crack me up XDIf I've ever feeling down about my work or how I'm performing, this will definitely pick me up haha.I love the vomiting sprinkles part, great stuff.

As another note, this is one of those "cake trends"(as I'd like to call it) that I really hate. If it's done right, it's cute, but it still gets annoying to see it. What's worse is, people will see dog cakes JUST like you posted and will go squealing like "OMG IT"S SO CUTE!! YOU DID GREAT!" DX ahhh it makes me wonder about some people...

Reminds me of the time the dog produced a big ball of slime that slowly oozed out into a big puddle - it was the same colour as the dog (white and brown) but had no discernible form or features... to this day we don't know which end of the dog it came out of, but not once have I ever thought that would make a great cake

I can't sit by and not comment today--what are these people thinking?! I mean, some of the grammar stuff I understand. If you're working for a grocery store at barely minimum wage, I guess the customer gets what they pay for.

But these monstrosities are obviously supposed to have been decorated by actual cake artists and it's just so sad! They are so obviously bad that I can't believe anyone would put them out for sale. Can they not see how poorly they've done their job?!

People have serious blinders on when it comes to their own "talent" sometimes. It's the same as those yahoos on American Idol who really think they're the best. Yikes.

I worked in a grocery store bakery with a lady who would make these cakes all the time. People would go buck wild over them as if they were the cutest things ever. What has this world come to? Pure ugly filth I tell you.

Also, maybe Clifford there (the red one) is supposed to be CONSUMING the sprinkles. I can also see it looking like he's vacuuming them up. Then again, maybe I am just charitably trying to find an explanation for the unusual sprinkle distribution.

And the last one is hilarious, I too thought it looked like the dog's face has melted off.

There are HILLARIOUS! After seeing them here on your blog, I found one at Walmart and brought it home. It actually looks much better than all the ones here, nonetheless, when my daughter saw the paw prints on the paper she said "what's that supposed to be mom? Terds?". HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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